Opera
Discover the world's most renowned opera stars, including legendary singers, composers, and conductors. Explore biographies, achievements, and performances of celebrated opera personalities from history to the present day.
Einar Andersson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish opera singer
Renato Bruson
Italy
ItalyItalian operatic baritone
Carlo Cossutta
Italy
ItalyItalian dramatic tenor
Cynthia Munzer
USA
USAAmerican opera singer, mezzo-soprano
Amaury Vassili
France
FranceFrench singer, tenor
Annagul Annakulieva
Turkmenistan
TurkmenistanSoviet Turkmen opera singer (soprano), actress
Mihail Grishko
Soviet Ukrainian opera singer (dramatic baritone)
Pierre Francois Pierre François Wartel
France
FranceFrench opera singer (tenor)
Karlotta Grisi
Italy
ItalyOpera singer, soprano
Birgit Nilsson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish opera singer (dramatic soprano)
Sergejs Jegers
Latvia
LatviaLatvian singer, countertenor.
Julia Migenes-Johnson
USA
USAAmerican opera singer
Irma Kolassi
Greece
GreeceGreek opera singer
Martha Lipton
USA
USAAmerican opera singer, mezzo-soprano
Sofia Scalchi
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer
Wolfgang Windgassen
Germany
GermanyGerman singer (tenor).
Vladimir Nardov
Opera singer (tenor) and opera director
Margaret Price
Great Britain
Great BritainWelsh singer, soprano
Huseynqulu Sarabski
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani opera singer (tenor)
Angela M. Brown
USA
USAAfrican American opera singer, soprano
Carlo Bergonzi
Italy
ItalyItalian operatic lyric tenor
Gianni Poggi
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer-tenor
Miriam Gauci
Malta
MaltaOpera soprano singer, born in Malta
Giuseppina Grassini
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer (contralto)
Elizabeth Connell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish opera singer (soprano).
Patricia Brooks
USA
USAAmerican opera singer (lyric soprano) and actress
Paul Franz
France
FranceFrench opera singer, tenor
Roza Jamanova
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanKazakh opera singer (soprano), teacher.
Kulyash Baiseitova
Soviet Kazakh opera singer (lyric-coloratura soprano), dramatic actress
Gianluca Terranova
Italy
ItalyItalian tenor
Nikolay Gedda
Sweden
SwedenSwedish singer (tenor)
Giuseppe De Luca
USA
USAFamous Italian opera singer, baritone
Bidu Sayao
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian opera soprano
Franz Betz
Germany
GermanyGerman opera singer, baritone
Bianca Bianchi
Austria
AustriaAustrian soprano singer
Gioacchino Conti
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer-castrato, soprano
Amalie Materna
Austria
AustriaAustrian opera singer-soprano
Robert Breault
USA
USAAmerican operatic tenor
Solomiya Lukyanets
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian opera singer
Virginia Alonso
Cuba
CubaOpera singer, soprano.
Alessandra Marc
USA
USAAmerican dramatic soprano singer
Asmik Grigorian
Lithuania
LithuaniaArmenian-Lithuanian operatic soprano
Giuseppe Campanari
Italy
ItalyItalian opera baritone, cellist
Adele Kern
Germany
GermanyGerman opera singer, soprano
Kathy Westmoreland
USA
USAAmerican singer.
Rolando Villazon
Mexico
MexicoMexican opera singer (tenor)
Lucio Gallo
Italy
ItalyItalian operatic baritone whose career has spanned two decades.
Valentin Zhenevskiy
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet, Azerbaijani and Ukrainian chamber and pop singer (baritone),
John Mark Ainsley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish singer, lyric tenor
Giuseppe Millico
Italy
ItalyItalian singer (castrato), composer and teacher